Limiting decimal places in results

Some of my measurements from VIs are coming back with an exceedingly long string of decimal points. Is there a way to have TestStand globally trim it down globally or individually for the report?
Thanks,
jvh
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That was embarassingly straightforward Unfortunately, this field is disabled for ATML reporting (which I'm going to use as an excuse for not knowing about it) - the NumericFormat parameters still gets passed into the support DLL, but it doesn't affect anything. Anyone know a slick way of globally setting the numeric format for ATML reports?
I think the ATML report data is simply XML. XML is more of a database than a document, so a number would be recorded in the file as it's datatype (double,I32 etc...)
I suspect you would need to modify the ATML stylesheet in order to change the way the floating point values are presented in a browser...
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Limiting decimal places

is there a way to limit the number of decimal places that appear in an output?

Yes, truncate it manually or by some input method limiter.
If you are reading a spreadsheet file and outputting that to the console, then you can simply check the value of the string, and determine how many numbers come after the "." charactor. That will give you an index in the string.
Using that index you can then simply create a new string including the whole number, decimal, and only those points that you want.
You can also do the reverse and expand the decimals from, let's say 1 decimal (like 10.2) to a 2-digit decimal (like 10.20) by simply adding the needed places in the string after the last charactor.

Decimal places on the result row is incorrect

Dear Expert,
I met a problem that decimal places on the result row is incorrect.Anyone can help me?
On key figure balance,we do the currencies translation,also we set the key figure should have two decimal places.
We set a fomular to calculate the total result of Account A,B,C.
(Total result = account Aaccount Baccount C).
If we manually sum up the balance of account A,B,C displayed on analyzer,which are rounded to 2 decimal places,the result should be 601.25(100.61200.38300.26),but the actual total result executed by query is 601.24.
In fact we need the result 601.25 instead of 201.24.
I take the example as following:
Account Balance
Account A 100.61
Account B 200.38
Account C 300.26
Total result 601.24
Thank you in advance.
Best Regards,
Maggie
Edited by: Maggie Ma on Sep 25, 2008 9:17 AM

your "problem" is, that BEx is not totalling the "displayed" values but the real values
try a summation on the following in Excel:
100,605
200,375
300,26
then format the cells to show 2 decimal places only
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BEx Analyzer displays wrong number of decimal places after implementing BW patch

Hey folks,
we patched our BW 7.31 from PL10 to PL15 last weekend and now we got some issue with the number of decimal places shown in BEx Analyzer 7.x.
One example for KF X
Settings Info Object X
Decimal Places:                         Not defined
RSRT - Display X
Shows 3 decimal places
Query Designer Settings using KF X
Number of Descimal Places:     0 [Use Default Settings: NO]
BEx Analyzer Properties for KF X
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Resulting in BEx Analyzer workbook shows 3 decimal places instead of 0!
Anyone with an good idea about that?
Thanks,
Andreas

Hi Andreas,
Have you used the list calulation like "Calculate Result As Average" or "Calculate Single Values as normalization of result" in the relevant key figures?
For "Calculate Single Values as normalization of result",iIt is the known design that it is always displayed with three decimal places for normalized values, and the setting in Query Designer for
decimal place doesn't take effect.
For "Calculate Result As Average", the following note maybe relevant.
2096911 - Decimal places in query result is wrong, if average is used and display precision is set to less than 3, it will always show 3 decimal places.
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T006 field ANDEC for this unit.
Hope this helpful.
Regards,
Ceciclia

Can not change the number of decimal places in the normalization of result

dear all
    i want to see the proportion of some data, for example, the income of May is 300, and the total income is 1000, i need to display it like 33.33% . so i set the
Calculate single values as normalization of result, and then it display 33.333%, i like to display only two number of decimal places, so i set the number of decimal places as 0.00, but i doesn't work, it still display three decimal numbers.
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hi,thanks for your advice, but that doesn't suit for my problem.
before i set the normalization of result, i can change the decimal values. After that i cann't.
In your thread, someone proposes use the T-code OY04. but this wouldn't help. As i change to other key figure, such as user quantity, when i set normalization of result, it still display 3 decimal values.
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Displaying results with a decimal place of two. Forcing decimal place.

Hi there,
Im writing a simple calculation device.
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I am having a problem displaying the result with a constant two decimal place.
I am using strings and thus don't know how to do this.
Here is my code:
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and
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Use the toFixed() method of the Number class instead of the toString() method. The result of it is a String with the number of decimal places you specify.
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Decimal places display at the time of results recording

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Bex: overall Result: number of decimal places

Good day
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Cj Faurie

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U261B An Issue due to 3 Decimal Places in Percentage - Help Required

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Hi, I posted a message to SAP on this topic and got an explanation - it is a behaviour that cannot be changed in certain cases:
it is the known design that it is always displayed with three decimal
places for normalized values and the setting in Query Designer for
decimal place doesn't take effect. This is because that normalization
changes the number dimension of this structure element.
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Decimal places in Query generator

Hi All,
I am observing a weird behavior in Query generator's execution of a simple sql query. the query is :
Select 0.002834
now, in the general settings - display - amounts , I put the decimal value as 4 or 6, then only it prints 0.0028 or 0.002834.
else it prints 0.00 (if the decimal place is 2). it should ideally have nothing to do with the display of amount. any idea?
(the effect is shown only after you change the decimal display, update it and close and reopen the SAP application.
Thanks,
Binita
Edited by: Binita Joshi on Apr 12, 2010 4:03 PM

Hello Binita,
>I have tried converting it to numeric(19,4) and numeric(19,6) but still the result was same.
Check your decimal places settings in
\Administration\System Initialization\General Settings\Display tab
Check the following values:
- Units (For meaurement)
- Decimals in Query
Now let' s say,
- Unit set to 6 decimal places
- Decimals in Query set to 2
run the following query in query generator:
select cast(0.000245 as decimal(19,6))
result will be
0.00
run the same query as FMS on item master data in any measurement field (lenght)
select cast(0.000245 as decimal(19,6))
result will be
0.000245
Now set the - Decimals in Query set to 6 on \Administration\System Initialization\General Settings\Display tab
run the following query in query generator:
select cast(0.000245 as decimal(19,6))
result will be
0.000245
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Regards
J.

Cannot Update Decimal Places in General Settings

When I try to update the decimal points in the Administration > System Initialization > General Settings > Display path, SAP B1 gives me the following error:
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I am the only one on the system as "manager" with "Super User" and "Full Authorization"...
The SAP B1 Guide titled "How to Make Initial Setting in Business One - US" says "you can change these settings at any time".
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Thanks all - Zal

Hi Zal,
I agree with you about the strange messaging used by SAP.
But blocking the possibility to decrease the decimal places is extremely important.
Suppose you have inserted a sales document with two items in this way:
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Item 2 ___Qty 5,756 ___Unit price 3,15 ___Line total 18,13
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Item 2 ___Qty 5,75 ___Unit price 3,15 ___Line total 18,13
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If you try to do the calculations manually you will see that the results are not correct. In fact all the document would have to change in:
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Also if the document total will show correct (in the case of rounding the second decimal position of item 2), the totals of any line is wrong. In fact there is no recalculation at all in SAP (and must not be done).
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None of the economic figures will match.
BR
Antonio

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If we change the element data type reference to "Dec - Counter or amount field with Comma and Sign" then all the values are displayed with the decimal places even if decimals are zero.
As a result we are facing alignment issues for the various quantity related elements displayed on the screen. To change the underlying data type of the element is a not a solution for us as the data type quan is required for conversion from one unit to another unit.
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